Re: which module to read configuration file?

2014-09-07 Thread lee
Richard Bailey r...@rtbaileyphd.com writes:

 There is code available from my wizard at
 http://www.rtbaileyphd.com/perlwizard that is doing something fairly similar
 to what you described.  Use PerlWizard to generate a simple test program,
 run it once, and then examine the contents of the pwiz subirectory, which is
 where the config files go.  These are used in conjunction with Getopt::Long
 as well.

Thank you very much for you input!  I looked at the web page, and it
seems that the perlwizard is written in java, which is something I stay
away from as much as possible ...

I ended up with a pretty simple config file like this:


sender : subject : action1, action2, ..., actionN


From there, I've turned it into an emacs org-mode table for easier
editing.  The script needs less than 100 lines to read it, including all
checks.

I really like those tables :)


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which module to read configuration file?

2014-08-30 Thread lee
Hi,

is there a module available to read configuration files which are like
this:


arbitrary_denominator-00 | alternate-denominator-00 | alternate-denominator-01 
[| ...]
{
  itemA = some string
  itemB = some integer
  itemC = some float
  itemD = some CSV
}


as in:


postmas...@example.com
| u...@example.com
{
  itemB = 5
  itemC = 3.2
  itemD = foo, bar, example
}


The arbitrary_denominator would allow to retrieve the configuration
options given for that particular thing (in this case an email
address).

It doesn't /have/ to be exactly like this; I simply used a way of
writing it which I'd find pretty.  I merely want to kinda have a unique
handle of a set of options that apply so that I can access those in my
script, like:


my $foo = '.*@example.com';
my $config = getconfig-new(some.file);

foreach my $denom (@config-denominators) {
  if($denom =~ m/$foo/) {
  my $thisitem = config-itemC[$_];
  print itemC of $denom: $thisitem\n if defined($thisitem);
  }
}


I hope you get the idea ...  I'm thinking something like Getopt::Long,
but for configuration files like above instead of commandline options.

I don't want to use something like a CSV file for this because each
entry must not be required to have every possible item defined, and a
CSV file would be rather difficult to maintain.


It would be possible, though inconvenient, to use a single file for each
denominator.  I think that at the minimum, one file per /array of
denominators/ might do.  However, with multiple files, all of them would
have to be examined every time a config item for a denominator is
requested, which could lead to somewhat poor performance, hence I'd
rather use a single file.

This would be one step along the way of solving the problem of printing
(pre-filtered) incoming email, including the attachments, by various
criteria (when xx sends a PDF then print it unless it has more than N
pages and print all HTML from xx, but print all PDF from xx when the
subject is foo; never print the PDF sent by zz and only the first page
of HTML from zz ...):  I should need a configuration file which is easy
to edit, for specifying such criteria in sufficient detail.  Then a perl
script will use various tools to do the decoding and printing,
considering the config.  I'm expecting it to start somewhat simple and
getting more complicated over time when users figure out that they will
need a lot of criteria to keep the amount of paper wasted within
reasonable limits, so the config file format must be easily extendable
with further options.

Your ideas will be appreciated.


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Re: which module to read configuration file?

2014-08-30 Thread lee
lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de writes:

 Hi,

 is there a module available to read configuration files which are like
 this:


 arbitrary_denominator-00 | alternate-denominator-00 | 
 alternate-denominator-01 [| ...]
 {
   itemA = some string
   itemB = some integer
   itemC = some float
   itemD = some CSV
 }

Following-up my own question: I found [1] which appears to come close to
what I'm looking for.  Of course, I'd still love to hear your ideas :)


[1]: https://metacpan.org/pod/Config::JSON


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RE: which module to read configuration file?

2014-08-30 Thread Richard Bailey
There is code available from my wizard at
http://www.rtbaileyphd.com/perlwizard that is doing something fairly similar
to what you described.  Use PerlWizard to generate a simple test program,
run it once, and then examine the contents of the pwiz subirectory, which is
where the config files go.  These are used in conjunction with Getopt::Long
as well.

 

Best Regards,

R. T. Bailey

 

-Original Message-
From: lee [mailto:l...@yun.yagibdah.de] 
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2014 12:09 PM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: which module to read configuration file?

 

lee  mailto:l...@yun.yagibdah.de l...@yun.yagibdah.de writes:

 

 Hi,

 

 is there a module available to read configuration files which are like

 this:

 

 

 arbitrary_denominator-00 | alternate-denominator-00 | 

 alternate-denominator-01 [| ...] {

   itemA = some string

   itemB = some integer

   itemC = some float

   itemD = some CSV

 }

 

Following-up my own question: I found [1] which appears to come close to
what I'm looking for.  Of course, I'd still love to hear your ideas :)

 

 

[1]:  https://metacpan.org/pod/Config::JSON
https://metacpan.org/pod/Config::JSON

 

 

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How to use a configuration file?

2009-03-14 Thread Michael Renner
Moin,

I wrote a simple http proxy. This script have some configuration entries like

my $remoteProxy = 'http://localhost:8080/';
$ENV{'http_proxy'} = $remoteProxy;
.
.
# initialisation
my $proxy = HTTP::Proxy-new( port = 3128 );
$proxy - host(127.0.0.1);


I want to get some of these values (remoteProxy, the port and the IP address 
and some things more) from a configuration file. What is a good way to do 
this? What is a good format for this file? Human readable and easy to parse?

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Re: How to use a configuration file?

2009-03-14 Thread Chas. Owens
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 08:41, Michael Renner michael.ren...@gmx.de wrote:
 Moin,
snip
 I want to get some of these values (remoteProxy, the port and the IP address
 and some things more) from a configuration file. What is a good way to do
 this? What is a good format for this file? Human readable and easy to parse?
snip

I like YAML*, it is human readable, cross language, and can handle
almost any data structure you need to store.  I use YAML::Syck** in
Perl to read it.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaml
** http://search.cpan.org/dist/YAML-Syck/lib/YAML/Syck.pm

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Re: How to use a configuration file?

2009-03-14 Thread Octavian Râşniţă

From: Chas. Owens chas.ow...@gmail.com
I want to get some of these values (remoteProxy, the port and the IP 
address

and some things more) from a configuration file. What is a good way to do
this? What is a good format for this file? Human readable and easy to 
parse?

snip

I like YAML*, it is human readable, cross language, and can handle
almost any data structure you need to store.  I use YAML::Syck** in
Perl to read it.


Like the Captchas that offer just images, YAML is human readable just for 
the humans that can see. It is very hard to read by the blind though.


It is also hard to use it in POD documentations because the POD indents the 
text and in some cases in HTML pages also.


Config::Any module allows using more configuration formats, including the 
pretty well known Apache style configuration (which is offered by 
Config::General module).


Octavian



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create a tree of a configuration file content

2008-12-01 Thread Andreas Moroder

Hello,

I would like to parse ms .adm files. This files have a tree structure 
that look like


Category Name1
  category Name2
categor Name3
  Policy pol1
data lines here
...
  End policy
  Policy pol2
data lines here
...
  End policy
end category
category Name4
.

Is there a easy way to load this files as create a tree of the content 
of this type of file ? I need it to extract single policies including 
the category names they are embedded in.

The content of the single policies can be one object and must not be split.


Thanks
Andreas


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Re: create a tree of a configuration file content

2008-12-01 Thread Rob Coops
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Andreas Moroder 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello,

 I would like to parse ms .adm files. This files have a tree structure that
 look like

 Category Name1
  category Name2
categor Name3
  Policy pol1
data lines here
...
  End policy
  Policy pol2
data lines here
...
  End policy
end category
category Name4
 .

 Is there a easy way to load this files as create a tree of the content of
 this type of file ? I need it to extract single policies including the
 category names they are embedded in.
 The content of the single policies can be one object and must not be split.


 Thanks
 Andreas


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Hi Andreas,

A quick google search got me this link:

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/trench/3253.html

I have no idea how good it is but somehow I expect novell to be resonably
good at workign these kinds fo things out. As far as I can tell it is
released under some form of open source license or the other so it might be
exactly what you are looking for.

Regards,

Rob


Re: Configuration File generator

2005-04-25 Thread Offer Kaye
On 4/24/05, Tommy Nordgren wrote:
 I wan't links to any useful tools for generating configure scripts in
 perl.
 That is, tools to automatically generate the configure script for
 open-source
 C/C++ projects.
 

Perl itself uses a Configure script generated using the metaconfig
tool, which is (as best asI could find) poorly documented. See (if you
must):
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-Maker/
The Configure script itself can be seen here:
http://search.cpan.org/src/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.6/Configure

IMHO, for C and C++ projects, you are better off using the Automake
and Autoconf tools from the GNU Foundation:
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/

Automake itself is written in Perl.

HTH,
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Configuration File generator

2005-04-24 Thread Tommy Nordgren
I wan't links to any useful tools for generating configure scripts in 
perl.
That is, tools to automatically generate the configure script for 
open-source
C/C++ projects.

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Configuration File

2004-09-30 Thread Errin Larsen
Hi Perlers,

I'm trying to implement one of the recipes I found in the Perl
Cookbook.  It is 8.16. Reading Configuration Files recipe.  Here are
some snippets from that text:

  ... Or better yet, treat the config file as full Perl code:

do $ENV{HOME}/.progrc;
...
The second solution uses do to pull in raw Perl code directly. When
used with an expression instead of a block, do interprets the
expression as a filename. This is nearly identical to using require,
but without risk of taking a fatal exception.
...
You might wonder what context those files will be executed under. They
will be in the same package that do itself was compiled into.
Typically you'll direct users to set particular variables, which,
being unqualified globals, will end up in the current package. If
you'd prefer unqualified variables go into a particular package, do
this:

{ package Settings; do $ENV{HOME}/.myprogrc }

As with a file read in using require or use, those read in using do
count as a separate and unrelated lexical scope. That means the
configuration file can't access its caller's lexical (my) variables,
nor can the caller find any such variables that might have been set in
the file. It also means that the user's code isn't held accountable to
a pragma like use strict or use integer that may be in effect in the
caller.


My code looks like this (for testing):

  #!/usr/bin/perl
  # configtest.pl

  use warnings;
  use strict;

  { package Config; do configtest.conf }

  print $_\n for( @Config::FILE_NAME );

My configtest.conf file looks like this:
  
  # A list of file names
  @FILE_NAME = qw[
/This/is/a/test
/This/is/also/a/test
/And/this/is/the/last/test
  ];

Now, this code runs, and produces the expected output.  However, it
also gives me a warning:
  Name Config::FILE_NAME used only once: possible typo at
./configtest.pl line 7.

I realize I can just turn my pragmas off after testing/implementation
to get rid of this, but is there a better way?  Perhaps my Perl
Cookbook is just old (yup, 1st edition.  Has this recipe been
updated?)

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Re: Configuration File

2004-09-30 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Errin Larsen wrote:
  { package Config; do configtest.conf }
  print $_\n for( @Config::FILE_NAME );
snip
Now, this code runs, and produces the expected output.  However, it
also gives me a warning:
  Name Config::FILE_NAME used only once: possible typo at
./configtest.pl line 7.
I realize I can just turn my pragmas off after testing/implementation
to get rid of this, but is there a better way?
Nothing prevents you from declaring @FILE_NAME:
package Config;
our @FILE_NAME;
do configtest.conf;
print $_\n for @FILE_NAME;
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Re: Configuration File

2004-09-30 Thread Errin Larsen
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:30:16 +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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 Nothing prevents you from declaring @FILE_NAME:
 
  package Config;
  our @FILE_NAME;
  do configtest.conf;
  print $_\n for @FILE_NAME;
 
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doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose of declaring the Config name
space?  I was trying to keep the variables in the configtest.conf file
in a different name space than the main program.  I don't HAVE to do
this, just thought it seemed like a good way to keep the two,
potentially conflicted, name spaces apart.  I wanted to see the
variables created in the Config name space require a dereference (is
that the right word?), ala Config::FILE_NAME.  That way, if the main
code ALSO has a FILE_NAME variable, the contents of the (at run time,
unknown to the main developer) config file.

I hope that's making sense.

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Re: Configuration File

2004-09-30 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Errin Larsen wrote:
Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
Nothing prevents you from declaring @FILE_NAME:
package Config;
our @FILE_NAME;
do configtest.conf;
print $_\n for @FILE_NAME;
doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose of declaring the Config name
space?
Can't see how. It is being declared within package Config.
I was trying to keep the variables in the configtest.conf file in a
different name space than the main program.
That sounds wise, and I didn't suggest anything else.
I wanted to see the variables created in the Config name space
require a dereference (is that the right word?),
No. You mean require the fully qualified names.
ala Config::FILE_NAME.
If you don't export anything from package Config, you still need to
use the fully qualified names when calling those variables from other
packages, so I don't think that's a reason either to not declare the
variables in package Config.
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Re: Using strict and a configuration file?

2002-06-11 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan

just define all vars in ur conf file with a scope reslution

eg $global::test = 'hello';


Octavian Rasnita wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 Is it possible to use use strict; if I get the variables from a
 configuration file?
 
 I've tried:
 
 use strict;
 require f:/xxx/config.txt;
 
 #In the configuration file I have a line like my $test = test test test;
 
 print Content-type: text/html\n\n;
 print $test;
 
 This gives me an error that I should define the variable $test.
 I don't want to define it in the script but in the configuration file.
 However, if I define it in the script with my $test; the script prints an
 empty string and doesn't take the variable from the configuration file.
 
 Is it possible to use strict, or it is necessary to use no strict;?
 
 Another problem, maybe bigger is that  even though the script is running
 fine,  it give me errors in the log file telling me that the variable $xxx
 and $yyy, ... is used only once.
 
 Is there a good method to define variables for more scripts in  a single
 configuration file?
 I don't want to store my email address and other settings in each script
 because I may change that address, and then I will need to modify a lot.
 
 Thank you.
  or I have another solution for defining all the variables in a
 configuration file?
 
 
 Teddy,
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Re: Using strict and a configuration file?

2002-06-11 Thread David T-G

Teddy --

...and then Octavian Rasnita said...
% 
% Hi all,

Hello!


% 
% Is it possible to use use strict; if I get the variables from a
% configuration file?
% 
% I've tried:
% 
% use strict;
% require f:/xxx/config.txt;

Have you tried

  use f:/xxx/config.txt;

instead?  From my reading of the camel book, require happens at run time
and thus anything it defines won't be defined at compile time and strict
will puke, whereas use essentially performs a require at compile time
and then lets yuou import declarations into your own namespace, the
latter part of which may also be useful (no put intended ;-) in light
of some of the scoping concerns brought up in other replies.


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RE: Using strict and a configuration file?

2002-06-10 Thread Maureen E Fischer

I had this same question answered on the perl beginners list.  Object
oriented programming was recommended.  Someday I want to learn about
that
But for now what I did was give the configuration file and the scripts
that use it the same package name and then I defined these variables as
global
Variables with the use vars.   It works ok with the use strict, but it
may
Violate some standard perl coding practices against global variables. 
Maureen  

-Original Message-
From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 12:12 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Using strict and a configuration file?

Hi all,

Is it possible to use use strict; if I get the variables from a
configuration file?

I've tried:

use strict;
require f:/xxx/config.txt;

#In the configuration file I have a line like my $test = test test
test;

print Content-type: text/html\n\n;
print $test;

This gives me an error that I should define the variable $test.
I don't want to define it in the script but in the configuration file.
However, if I define it in the script with my $test; the script prints
an
empty string and doesn't take the variable from the configuration file.

Is it possible to use strict, or it is necessary to use no strict;?

Another problem, maybe bigger is that  even though the script is running
fine,  it give me errors in the log file telling me that the variable
$xxx
and $yyy, ... is used only once.

Is there a good method to define variables for more scripts in  a single
configuration file?
I don't want to store my email address and other settings in each script
because I may change that address, and then I will need to modify a lot.

Thank you.
. or I have another solution for defining all the variables in a
configuration file?


Teddy,
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Using strict and a configuration file?

2002-06-07 Thread Octavian Rasnita

Hi all,

Is it possible to use use strict; if I get the variables from a
configuration file?

I've tried:

use strict;
require f:/xxx/config.txt;

#In the configuration file I have a line like my $test = test test test;

print Content-type: text/html\n\n;
print $test;

This gives me an error that I should define the variable $test.
I don't want to define it in the script but in the configuration file.
However, if I define it in the script with my $test; the script prints an
empty string and doesn't take the variable from the configuration file.

Is it possible to use strict, or it is necessary to use no strict;?

Another problem, maybe bigger is that  even though the script is running
fine,  it give me errors in the log file telling me that the variable $xxx
and $yyy, ... is used only once.

Is there a good method to define variables for more scripts in  a single
configuration file?
I don't want to store my email address and other settings in each script
because I may change that address, and then I will need to modify a lot.

Thank you.
 or I have another solution for defining all the variables in a
configuration file?


Teddy,
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Re: Getting content of a configuration file

2002-05-31 Thread Todd Wade


Sven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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...
 $context = $q-param(context);

 require conf.txt;
 open(READ, conf.txt) or die Error opening file: conf.txt, Errorcode:
 $!\n;
 close(READ);

I dont understand the open then close. The require is all thats necessary.

 if ($context eq assembly) { %conf_data = %assembly ; }
 elsif ($context eq basic) { %conf_data = %basic ; }

Instead of doing this, use symbollic references.

%conf_data = %{$context};

and you are all set. You will have to turn off strict refs for this line of
code when use strict; is in effect.

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Re: Getting content of a configuration file

2002-05-26 Thread Sven

Hi Teddy,
you may try the following:

Write into your conf-file:
%assembly = (
title= 'Assembly language page',
description = 'Download free manuals and tutorials for assembly
language',
.
);

%basic = (
title= 'Basic and Visual Basic page',
description = 'Download Basic and Visual Basic tutorials',
.
);


And in your main-skript which should be called with something like
context=basic or assembly or ... as a parameter:
use CGI;
$q = new CGI;
$context = $q-param(context);

require conf.txt;
open(READ, conf.txt) or die Error opening file: conf.txt, Errorcode:
$!\n;
close(READ);

if ($context eq assembly) { %conf_data = %assembly ; }
elsif ($context eq basic) { %conf_data = %basic ; }

print $q-header;
print END_OF_HTML;
HTML
HEAD
TITLE$conf_data{title}/TITLE
META HTTP-EQUIV=Expires CONTENT=0
/HEAD
BODY
H1$conf_data{description}/H1
/BODY
/HTML
END_OF_HTML


- Original Message -
From: Octavian Rasnita [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 4:06 PM
Subject: Getting content of a configuration file


 Hi all,

 I want to use a configuration file for a script and maybe I look in
the
 wrong direction. Please tell me if I have a better solution.

 I want to make a script that generates HTML pages. I already have the
script
 but I need to manually enter the page title, the keywords, the
description,
 a page header and a footer manually.

 I want to get these strings from a configuration file.
 In this configuration file I want to have the strings for all web
pages.

 In the configuration file I am thinking to have something like:

 page=assembly
 title=Assembly language page
 keywords=assembly language code asm
 description=Download free manuals and tutorials for assembly language
 header=This is the header text
 footer=This is the footer text

 page=basic
 title=Basic and Visual Basic page
 keywords=visual basic vb script ActiveX
 description=Download Basic and Visual Basic tutorials
 header=This is the page header
 footer=This is the page footer

 

 Finally I would like to have something like:

 %assembly=(title='...', keywords= '...', description= '...',
header=
 '...', footer='...');
 %basic=(title='...', keywords= '...', description= '...', header=
'...',
 footer='...');
 

 However, I don't know if it is possible to generate variables like
%assembly
  on the fly (because in that configuration file I will add
variables for
 more pages.


 But maybe I am looking in a wrong direction and I can have another
solution.

 I thought I could put in the configuration file something like:

 assembly.title=Assembly language page
 assembly.keywords=
 assembly.description=...

 
 then to split the part before the = sign where is the .


 Please tell me if you have a better idea for such a configuration file
I
 want.

 Thank you.

 Teddy,
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Getting content of a configuration file

2002-05-25 Thread Octavian Rasnita

Hi all,

I want to use a configuration file for a script and maybe I look in the
wrong direction. Please tell me if I have a better solution.

I want to make a script that generates HTML pages. I already have the script
but I need to manually enter the page title, the keywords, the description,
a page header and a footer manually.

I want to get these strings from a configuration file.
In this configuration file I want to have the strings for all web pages.

In the configuration file I am thinking to have something like:

page=assembly
title=Assembly language page
keywords=assembly language code asm
description=Download free manuals and tutorials for assembly language
header=This is the header text
footer=This is the footer text

page=basic
title=Basic and Visual Basic page
keywords=visual basic vb script ActiveX
description=Download Basic and Visual Basic tutorials
header=This is the page header
footer=This is the page footer



Finally I would like to have something like:

%assembly=(title='...', keywords= '...', description= '...', header=
'...', footer='...');
%basic=(title='...', keywords= '...', description= '...', header= '...',
footer='...');


However, I don't know if it is possible to generate variables like %assembly
 on the fly (because in that configuration file I will add variables for
more pages.


But maybe I am looking in a wrong direction and I can have another solution.

I thought I could put in the configuration file something like:

assembly.title=Assembly language page
assembly.keywords=
assembly.description=...


then to split the part before the = sign where is the .


Please tell me if you have a better idea for such a configuration file I
want.

Thank you.

Teddy,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



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